The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
by David Igler
David Igler’s The Great Ocean traces the history of Pacific worlds from Captain Cook’s voyages to the Gold Rush. Framing the ocean as a connected historical space, it explores exploration, exchange, and transformation across a formative period in Pacific and world history.
About This Book
The Great Ocean examines the Pacific from the era of Captain Cook through the Gold Rush.
David Igler presents the ocean as a broad historical region shaped by movement, encounters, and exchange.
The book offers a connected view of Pacific worlds across a period of major exploration and transformation.
It is a work of maritime and world history focused on the forces that linked communities across the Pacific.
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